On a trip last week to the Colorado River along the Western Grand Canyon, we travelled down Diamond Creek canyon, that led down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It was just over 100 degrees.  There were very few honey bees flying, mostly seeming to look for water along the upper stretched of the canyon we were travelling down.  Later, farther south in Tucson where it was consistently above 100, we visted the Arizon-Sonora Desert Museum, where they have a netted hummingbird exhibit.  There were about a hundred or so honeybees on the many humingbird feeders. The museum did not maintain a honey bee hive on the grounds there(they were trying to set up an orchard bee nesting site, with little success so far.), so they must have been from a feral colony nearby.  One curator stated that if they found the hive they would probably have it destroyed because "here in Arizona they're all Africanized".

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